How is this better than a normal SSD? I got a 90gb for $45 and I am using it for the same exact thing. Is there any benefit to this caching one?
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I would expect you have more room to cache so more applications will run raster. But 32GB will run a lot of applications plus the OS. Not sure you are getting anything out of it. People rarely run that much at one time. On the other hand, its only $45 - which is not that much more. You could partition it in half and make better use of the 45GB that you are not using for caching. I would play around with it and see if 45GB gives you any decreased performance. If it doesn't, use the other 45GB for something else. Cheers!
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other than overall storage capacity no. A 1TB SSD runs about $550 with this you can speed up your system quite a bit and not change your system drive. I've been happy with it. I have it caching a 4TB WD drive and it works great. Replacing that 4TB with SSD would be a bit cost prohibitive for me right now.
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The results would be the same. But, the caching SSD implementation would be easier. Just connect the caching SSD to your computer, install the caching software and your set to go. The caching software automatically populates the caching SSD with the most used programs. Your hard drive remains untouched. If there would be a failure of the caching SSD, your hard drive remains intact. I hope this helps.
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This caching SSD is really only for people who don't want to replace their standard mechanical drive with an SSD it pretty much is the same SSD the only difference is it comes with software to cache files from the standard mechanical drive to improve performance.
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No this is a normal SSD drive but due to its small size a lot of people use ot for caching
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A normal SSD will still have better performance than a system using a caching SSD. The caching SSD really only provides a boost for systems using traditional spinning hard disk drives. My PC is much faster now using the caching SSD, but it will never be as fast as a PC using a normal SSD for its boot drive.
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Caching is different than storage. Analogy: you go to the library, but you are only allowed to have two books on your table - two hard drives. Cache is like having another table, but you can't go get books, you can only put open ones there.It can increase the efficiency of the data transfer from your hard-drive because it reduces re-reading of data.But I would say no to your question. Because many SSD's can be used for cache memory, and for starage - two uses. So I do not feel this is as versatile of a product as some.But it could really speed up a laptop. And it is not very backwards compatible with XP.Have a nice day,DON Caching is different than storage. Analogy: you go to the library, but you are only allowed to have two books on your table - two hard drives. Cache is like having another table, but you can't go get books, you can only put open ones there.It can increase the efficiency of the data transfer from your hard-drive because it reduces re-reading of data.But I would say no to your question. Because many SSD's can be used for cache memory, and for starage - two uses. So I do not feel this is as versatile of a product as some.But it could really speed up a laptop. And it is... » Read More Caching is different than storage. Analogy: you go to the library, but you are only allowed to have two books on your table - two hard drives. Cache is like having another table, but you can't go get books, you can only put open ones there.It can increase the efficiency of the data transfer from your hard-drive because it reduces re-reading of data.But I would say no to your question. Because many SSD's can be used for cache memory, and for starage - two uses. So I do not feel this is as versatile of a product as some.But it could really speed up a laptop. And it is not very backwards compatible with XP.Have a nice day,DON « Show Less
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I was going to buy it here on Amazon but Newegg.com had an even better deal. For $390 they threw in an extra 1TB hard drive. Pretty good deal. Can't wait to test this baby out.
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It really isn't bad for speed. I got this for my daughter for college. I'm not sure what the ssd is.
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From what I gather, the SSD is mainly used to help boot up the computer faster. It holds a lot of temporary files so that the HDD doesn't need to store them where your permanent files are. However, I am not tech savvy so I could be wrong.
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Most welcome. You might consider getting the 64 GB version of this drive instead of the 16 GB. It will give you a lot more flexibility, and at $24.99 you'll be paying 39 cents/GB instead of 63 cents/GB for the 16 GB drive. Just a thought.
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I tried a hybrid drive and it gave me similar performance to a SSD, 10 to 25% in initial load, no diference in between game load time and not much difference in start time. Basically not really worth it. The difference is like 36 sec vs 40 or 55 vs 102 sec.
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No idea but Google around. I see lots of comments about SSD and RAID setups on the net. Good luck!
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I would select the one at the lower price , be it the Crucial or Samsung. Both are good drives and I'll bet you couldn't tell the difference between the two unless you ran benchmark software that told you one was faster. I have several different brand/size/speed drives and on a day-to-day basis there is no observable change in performance. Once you get a SSD you will be happy.
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I'm running it on a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R mainboard. This week I attached a 250Gb EVO ssd to the IO Crest and the Samsung Magician software is reporting it as a SATA 3 (6Gb/s) interface. My drive benchmarks at 428 (sequential read), 57935 iops (random) and 402 (sequential write), 24716 iops (random), now well below the 540 / 520 max indicated. The drive has slightly better than 50% freespace.
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The 5400rpm Best Buy's (NP700Z5B-W01UB) model HDD was a deal breaker for me. Besides Amazon's tax savings offset the price difference, so you get all 4 additional features (7200 HDD, 8G SSD, backlit keyboard, better video) for about $100 considering shipping and the current $150-$200 price difference. However the mention of the 5400rpm drive in S03 (and I'm sure S04) models made me think again. It's gotta be some difference with S01/S02 and the drive seems to be it. Another thing that one reviewer (of the S04) confirmed is that the 8G SSD is indeed proprietary tech (built into and inseparable from the HDD) and thus unavailable as a separate drive letter. I use Linux as my primary OS, so I don't care about Windows startup or IE speed. I don't think Linux would pick up the SSD at all. Which makes me go back to the stripped down Best Buy model. I'd simply swap its slow HDD with a full-size (256G+) SSD which can be had for $300 nowadays. I can live w/o the backlit keyboard and as far as the less capable video card, it's a business notebook, not a water-cooled gaming rig anyway.
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That is not true. I've not had any issues with this and the speed improvement you get with an SSD far outweighs any negatives.
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im not the owner of this but if you want an upgrade like that it would be some kind of 400$ or 450$ more, solid state drives (ssd) are really expensive
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Caching is a way to improve your systems performance. It copies some of the files from your most used files to this SSD drive for quick access, and since an SSD is much quicker than your HHD it allows your system to perform more quickly. This SSD can be used this way or you can use it as a normal drive. WARNING this drive is very small in size, If you put your windows on this drive it will take up most of it. I put windows 8.1 and Linux on it and this just about filled it. The advantage is the it loads my operation system fast and the rest is used as virtual memory to allow my PC to operate quickly and the I used a 1TB HHD for my normal storage. Caching is a way to improve your systems performance. It copies some of the files from your most used files to this SSD drive for quick access, and since an SSD is much quicker than your HHD it allows your system to perform more quickly. This SSD can be used this way or you can use it as a normal drive. WARNING this drive is very small in size, If you put your windows on this drive it will take up most of it. I put windows 8.1 and Linux on it and this just about filled it. The advantage is the it loads my operation system fast and the rest is used as virtual memory to allow my PC to operate... » Read More Caching is a way to improve your systems performance. It copies some of the files from your most used files to this SSD drive for quick access, and since an SSD is much quicker than your HHD it allows your system to perform more quickly. This SSD can be used this way or you can use it as a normal drive. WARNING this drive is very small in size, If you put your windows on this drive it will take up most of it. I put windows 8.1 and Linux on it and this just about filled it. The advantage is the it loads my operation system fast and the rest is used as virtual memory to allow my PC to operate quickly and the I used a 1TB HHD for my normal storage. « Show Less
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Hybrid drives are slower. 8GB of Flash, what are you going to do with that. I've tried many Seagates. Dual drive is better but pure SSD why not these days
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I'm in the very same situation... got my SSD Sandisk 256GB but would prefer to have the ADATA 128GB if it would be faster. You can reach me at laborges at hot mail . Thanks!
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I have not seen it with strictly a ssd hard drive. I will say this though..... It works similarly to an ssd. things that you would want to operate very quickly ( like your operating system) are stored in the ssd portion, while data that doesn't need to accessed quickly/often are stored on the hd portion. Personally, I think it works very well and I'm quite pleased with it. Plus, you're not stuck with the crap Windows 08 OS. Additionally, it makes the laptop cheaper by operating the way it does. A co-worker of mine has a custom built laptop with much better hardware (including the ssd hard drive) and it's not terribly faster than this one.
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I installed a Samsung 840 products ssd and it works great. Also, the included ram is inaccessible, however there are 2 empty slots easily accessible to add up to 8 more gb.